Show WOMAN TRIES iO GUN CUN I I Mrs Mr Katherine Reagan a aGar Gar Garfield Garfield field Hotel Keeper Tried to Shoot Frank Mayo in Corn Corri Corridor dor of the Boston Building DOES NOT UNDERSTAND AN AUTOMATIC REVOLVER Attempted Shooting Is Result l o f an n Attempt on the Part of X i Husband to Secure Charge i of a Child CASE COMES CaMES UP TODAY d y through fear of ot los losing os osIng ing her 6 daughter and believing herself to be the victim of a plot of which she says her husband is the chief hief c Instigator and Frank Mayo and others are the accessories Mrs Katherine Rea Ret Reagan Rean gan n proprietress of ot a hotel at Garfield attempted to shoot Frank Mayo Ma o in the corridor of the Boston building late Wednesday night and It Is Is l stated was only nt ed from accomplishing her purpose by her ignorance of ot the methods of o using an automatic autom lUc revolver The attempt was wa on Mayos life Just outside the th door of df f A B Irvines office in i Mayo had been bean giving a deposition in the bat battle battle batT T tle tie for the custody of the child now being fought by b Mr and Mrs Rea Ren Reagan Reagan gan After the woman had placed the revolver against Mayos body and attempted to shoot him by pulling the safety she was waa seized and dis disarmed disarmed armed by her husband Frank Rea flea Reagan gan who had been bean present during the taking of ot the deposition V y p VV vv Mrs Reagan was placed under arrest at her bar hotel in Garfield yesterday after afternoon afternoon afternoon noon by Deputy Sheriff Edward Palmer I If f and brought to the tho county jail jaU or a complaint charging attempt to murder sworn out ott before Judge J 3 M ZIt Bowman The woman was waa placed under bond and released She was hysterical when brought to the jail and declared it was another move to separate her from tram her little daughter For several weeks the t o Reagans haye e been fighting for tor of their child following the filing of divorce a d sUit b by Mrs Reagan R an a 8 few months ago Several hearings have already been had before Judge C W Morse of the district court and a final hearing in the case is B set t for today The feeling between husband and wife wie has been bitter and Mrs Reagan has at various times ac accused accused accused her husband of ot sending spies to her lr hotel to find out the kind of ot a life she ahe was leading Walter Ryan a for former former mer mar cook at the hotel testified at one of ot the tho recent hearings that Mrs Rea Ren Reagan gan had hed threatened to shoot him that she had a gun and looked like she knew how bow to use UBe It and that he played the better p rt of valor alor and hiked The ramifications of ot the Reagan case has furnished gossip for acquaintances I of the family In Garfield for tor several months About one year ear ago It Is stated that the tile Reagans were living happily together At that time Mrs Reagan is IB said to have asked her husband to move to Nevada Reagan claims that he went wont to Nevada and made a home for the woman there and that she refused to togo togo togo go to him Reagan then returned to Garfield and says he was refused ad admission admission mission ml elon to his home Later Mrs Rea Ren Reagan Reagan gan started a hotel near the Utah Cop Copper Copper Copper per mines Shortly following this move on her tor part she ahe instituted a suit for di dl divorce vorce orce against her husband nd Woman Grows Suspicious In lila his answer and anti the husband asked that the daughter be placed in La the St Marys academy in Suit Silt Mrs Reagan fought this thiR request of her husband and petitioned that the child be allowed to remain with her bar in Garfield In the meantime it Is said Mrs Mra Reagan grew suspicious su of oC various persons about the hotel and it itis ItIs itIs is Mid sM Jd that she has frequently made at of violence against some rome of them Walter Vatter Ryan R an and George Gil GU Gilbert GUbert Gilbert bert one a cook and tho the other a boarder at the Reagan hotel have testified in hearings of the divorce case that Mrs Reagan had threatened their lives livee L Continued on page 7 1 OF WOMAN TRIES TO USE GUN Continued from Page 1 charging ch them with being In the employ of her husband Frank Mayo was a boarder at the Reagan hotel until the first of ot the pres present present present ent week He left Garfield Wednes Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday day and came to Salt Lake It is stated that Mrs Reagan suspected him and followed him to this city encountering him In the law office of A B Irvine In Inthe Inthe Inthe the Boston building where he had gone in company with Mr Reagan to make a deposition to be used In the hearing of the case today It Is said the woman waited in the corridor of ot the building and when Mayo emerged with her hus bus husband husband band she rushed upon him with a Colts CoIts automatic revolver and placing it against his body attempted to fire lire the weapon She was seized by her hus husband husband husband band who disarmed her after discover discovering discoverIng dIscoverIng ing that she did not understand how to operate ope te the safety device on the gun It ItIs ItIs Itis Is stated that only this fact prevented the gun from being emptied Into I body The warrant for Mrs Mis Reagans arret arrest I Iwas Iwas was sworn out before Judge Bowman yesterday yest morning and Deputy Sheriff Palmer found her at the hotel In Gar Garfield Garfield Garfield field late yesterday afternoon and brought her to the county Jail jan Mrs Reagan declared after being released on n bond yesterday that she would not give up her child and that she would appear at the hearing before beCore Judge Morse this afternoon Justice J A Weibel of Garfield said last night that Mrs Reagan was conducting a good ho hotel hotel hotel tel business and had many friends In Garfield who were standing by her in her present fight for the possession of the child |